Willa Cather Quotes

Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.

Don't get me wrong: I think that everyone should put forth an effort to do better, but let's face it, some of us are just plain luckier than others.

How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!

We are not saints, gods, spiritual human beings that we can sit and decide whether a film will do well or not. It is not in our hands.

Sometimes you succeed and sometimes you don't.

You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

Life is unfair. I got nothing but the best.

Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck.

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.

Prize lists are out, and you're not on them? Nature of the world - means nothing. Prizes are a lottery.

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

Success and failure are equally surprising.

Every night and every morn Some to misery are born; Every morn and every night Some are born to sweet delight.

Human affairs are governed by such a variety of whimsical circumstances, that we should always be prepared to stand the shock of that disappointment which the best concerted measures are constantly subject to.

Everybody has ways in which they've been lucky in life, and everybody also has ways in which they've definitely rolled snake eyes.

I've always had a love of cards, ever since I was a little kid. I think poker, as a system, describes the chaos of the world. Our sudden reversals, our freak streaks of fortune. The belief that the next hand can save you, and the inevitable failure of the next hand to save you. I think that describes my world view pretty well.

I have never had any success in planning my life, really.

The reality is that luck does play a part of it. It does. Ultimately it's a make or miss league.

I think you end up on the lucky side, or you don't.

You can't pick and choose who's going to win or who's gonna mess up.

Sometimes, things don't go your way. Sometimes, they do.

Of course it's all luck.